As
part of our activities towards our environmental goals, the Medway
River Salmon Association has made particular efforts to work closely
with our local youth. It is, after all, with them that our future
lies. Some of what we do can be read about on our Fish Friends page as well as through various press clippings on our In The News page. The pictures below reflect some activities with the Nova Scotia Community College students and faculty.
Back
in the fall of 2011 a student at NSCC, who is the daughter of one of
our members, was engaged in a class discussion about student
involvement in environmental initiatives. Each student was
expected to make a presentation to the class about what they were doing
in that regard. One thing led to another, ending up with
the class going to McGowan Lake to help MRSA "clip" fish.
They subsequently became involved in a project of ours which will
"GPS" plot
Medway River salmon pools. Discussions at that time took place
with the class instructor and MRSA about how we can continue to work
together on future activities which will
benefit both them and the MRSA. We see this as a win-win for all
concerned and welcome the continuing college involvement.
It
was a cold day in February, 2012, when the Nova Scotia Community
College, Natural Resources Environmental Technology 2nd year class met
with the Medway River Salmon Association (MRSA) to GPS the salmon
pools along the Medway River. Students, Course Instructor
and Association members traversed the river bank from Mill
Village through to Bangs Falls locating known pools. A map
indicating the salmon pools will be created using the coordinates
collected.
This is the second project Medway River Salmon
Association and the NSCC Envirmental Technology students
have teamed together on. In the fall of 2011 the students
worked together with MRSA members at McGowan’s Lake Fish
Hatchery to ‘clip’ fish. This is a process in which
the adipose fin of each fish is clipped. The purpose for this is
to enable tracking of the fish stock.
It was evident that the
students enjoyed both opportunities to work with MRSA. As stewards of
the Medway River MRSA is happy to contribute in
fostering the involvement and enthusiasm of the NSCC
students. We look forward to the future!
Left to right:
Kelly Berringer, Sarah Holden, Tyler Brown, Andrew Ross (1st year
Instructor), Kay Forwood, Sarah Crnec, Justin Amero, Scott Verreault,
Justin MacMurtry, Jake Blades, Brett Johnson, Brian Holden (MRSA)
Left to right:
Kelly Berringer, Brett Johnson, Jake Blades, Scott Verreault,
Justin Amero, Justin MacMurtry, Andrew Ross (1st year Instructor),
Tyler Brown, Brian Holden (MRSA) Kneeling: Kay Forwood, Sarah Crnec, Sarah Holden
